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(...) OK Clark, Here we go..... (...) Yes, the white/off white inner boxes are of parts packs from 1955-59. The black inner boxes are 1960-62. The full color with flap and no inner box (tray) are from 1963-65. The monochromatic blue boxes are from (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: rtlToronto18 Draft Ruleset Posted
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(...) You mean like in the last section, entitled "the rules", point 1: <<Robots must be safe-physical safety is required. A minimum distance will be required for audience members from the ropes. If your robot breaks apart while at the top, you are (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: rtlToronto18 Draft Ruleset Posted
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"rtlToronto18 is a robotics design competition run by rtlToronto, a group for Lego enthusiasts in the Greater Toronto Area. It is the fifteenth such contest in six years and intends to challenge Lego fans to build complex contraptions that solve a (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | rtlToronto18 Draft Ruleset Posted
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Faster than Chris can say "Seven Layer Burrito" here's the rtlToronto18 Draft Ruleset for February 2005: (URL) think we're pretty much in as much agreement over the main aspects of the rules. However, I need your help to find any potential problems, (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Crab steering idea
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(...) Yes, it does. It is all computer controlled though. Incidentally, Nathan's design can be used with 2 fixed steering wheels: reverse the rear steering bar, so that tilting the "steering column" now operates crab steering mode remove the knob on (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: my MOC page is up and running!
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(...) Hi Laura! Looks great. I really like the Keep and village. Very detailed and thought out. Your mill is excellent as well. I recall seeing it in a thread on Classic-Castle.com. It was spotted on Brickshelf and we talked about it. Very (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.tx)
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| | Re: Lego spare parts box pictures from the 1950's
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(...) Gary, Thanks for the pictures and information. There is an interesting variety to these boxes: (URL) have a few questions: 1) Most of the boxes are colored sleeves that surround a white or black box with mono-colored graphics. But I've seen (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Partsref DAT download problems?
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(...) I didn't see it myself until today, when I spotted a new reply to it in the .admin group. (...) category entry correctly links you to .../parts/3001.dat. I'd guess the category pages are hard-coded, since they're HTML, while the search results (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: The RE_wing. A recon version of the E-Wing fighter
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In lugnet.announce.moc, brent skadan wrote: snip (...) I'm really impressed, for a lot of reasons. The Technic-fig scale is quite a challenge, being quite a parts hog. Despite that, the color scheme is very tight. Others have commented on the (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| | Re: Partsref DAT download problems?
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(...) Wow, if I had seen that I wouldn't have even tried. Peeron it is then. I guess I go to Partsref just out of habit... No wonder Steve won't talk to me anymore! ;^) (...) Partref search results link: (URL) directory link: (URL) all, Darrell (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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Nathan- Thanks for showing how crab steering works. I also like how you designed it, but the fact that it doesn't have a fixed steering wheel bothered me, so I designed one which has. Also, I might impliment this in my realtime version of my crane (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | 8865 and 8475
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So why did I want to get the hubs and the rubber to stick together on the old large Technic tyres? After a very successful 8448 and 8475 merge, and a mostly successful 8466 and 8475 merge, I decided to have another go at it. Thought about the 956 (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Renderer Questions
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(...) I recommend "LEGO Software Power Tools", I know the guys that wrote it. :^) (...) LPub guarantees the consistant scale, not L3P or POV-Ray. Without LPub the images always fill the window (L3P), so the scale would constantly change. L3P does (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Armor!
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(...) I'm more partial to the term "wuss blue", though that probably comes from being a long-time fan of Legends of the Five Rings. I can understand why they went with brighly colored good-guys (worked for BIONICLE), but I'm at a complete loss as to (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) Something like that. I was saying more on the basis that if you're already involving Peeron in your search process, there's no point in using that information to hunt the parts down in another database when Peeron already provides direct links (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: another moc: orchard house
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(...) thank you. the group had worked really hard together & is looking forward to the next opportunity to show their stuff. -§ deborah §- (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, FTX)
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| | Re: Partsref DAT download problems?
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(...) I've scratched my head about this as well, but I suppose Parts Tracker is just for unoffical files. To get an offical DAT file, you can just type a URL into your browser (substituting the correct part number, of course): (URL) This is (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Armor!
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(...) Yah, purple (accompanied with a purple cape) works not bad... That is, if you should desire a rather mystical figure. I actually have a picture of this demonic apparition: (2 URLs) (...) Indeed, i too find that "Barbie Blue, a derisive term (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Re: Partsref DAT download problems?
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(...) So... You're saying the solution to my problem is just don't use Partsref at all? "Doctor Doctor it hurts when I do this?" I'm trying to figure out if this link problem a real problem, or just something funky with our systems? Darrell (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Problem creating .pov using LGEO parts in L3PAdd-on
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(...) the problem is that LGEO doesn't use the same origin - at least with the libraries I have installed. So, to fix it, add the following directive at lines 159 and 308 of the LGEO file lg_6187.inc: translate <0, 0, -2*LG_BRICK_WIDTH> (...) I had (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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